Lead QA Engineer
Location: US, OR, Portland
Department: Engineering
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Internet
Function: Quality Assurance

Company profile:
At Cedexis, we’re passionate about solutions for a faster web and we need people to bring our message to the world.The Internet can be a messy place. Cedexis makes it much easier for companies to evaluate and make decisions on how they serve content to their customers. Today, over 250 media, retail, luxury and consumer brands count on Cedexis for 100% availability, optimal web performance, flexibility and choice that drives traffic and revenue at lower cost and risk. Our customers include Mozilla, Microsoft, NBC, Lacoste, and Volkswagen.Founded in 2009, we’re focused innovators at the core of global expansion strategies. We’re committed to making the web and mobile user experiences equally fast and robust for each and every user on the planet.

Job description:
Founded in 2009, Cedexis optimizes web performance across data centers, content delivery networks and clouds around the world.  Companies that want to ensure 100% availability and extend their reach to new global markets trust us. We make it easier for companies to evaluate and make decisions on how they serve digital content to their customers. Today, over 500 brands (including Mozilla, Microsoft, NBC and Volkswagen) count on Cedexis for 100% availability, optimal web performance, flexibility and choice that drives traffic and revenue at lower cost and risk.We are hiring a Lead QA Engineer to design, implement and automate quality and testing strategies for our global, high-volume distributed system. This position reports to the Vice President of Engineering and works with a team of 14 engineers around the world committed to building great products for our diverse set of customers.Our Technical Stack:At Cedexis, we run hundreds of servers around the world- all on Ubuntu Linux - in both cloud/virtual and bare metal datacenters. We use digital services and open source tools including Amazon S3 and PostgreSQL. Most of the services we write are implemented in Python, Java and/or C++. Our service is 24/7/365 always up world-wide, so we also employ cluster automation and monitoring aggressively.

Requirements:
What We’ve Gotta Have:7+ years’ experience writing tools, programs and automated tests.2+ years overseeing at least two other test/QA engineers in a lead/manager capacity.4+ in testing distributed system including REST API’s, socket-based communication protocols, OR large data processing algorithms.2+ years writing automated tests against either socket-based distributed systems or high-volume data processing systems.Experience designing test strategy and authoring test plans.Experience with integration, performance, scale and reliability testing.A drive for best practices in bug database management.Excellent communication skills and easy to work with.What Would Be Nice:Ability to engage early and continuously in the development process, driving quality at all points in the process.A deep passion for automation, with a practical sensibility about how to keep it effective without making it fragile.Experience working with developers, complimenting their unit test strategies.Specific applied experience with common test harnesses.Familiarity with the details of DNS and HTTP protocols.Experience capturing and analyzing network packets (e.g., Wireshark).

Benefits:
Working at CedexisWe’re headquartered in downtown Portland, Oregon, close to public transportation, the waterfront, and a ton of great food carts. Our office here includes private bike parking, showers, and we’re upstairs from one of the best coffee shops in town.At Cedexis, you get to manage how you get your work done best. We love to collaborate in person and work hard, but because we do remote so well, we also have a flexible work-at-home policy, work schedule and vacation policy. We adore Slack, Google Hangouts and Skype for getting together remotely. And of course, we offer a strong, comprehensive benefits package to take good care of our people.How to ApplyPlease submit your resume with a cover letter stating why you’re interested in working with Cedexis in particular, and a brief description of how you meet each of our listed requirements for the position. As part of the online application process, you’ll see we’ve included three questions to learn a bit more about your QA background.We are moving quickly on this recruitment, so you can expect to receive an email back from our recruiter within 24 hours of your application. Thanks!